Thursday, January 24, 2008

Pan To Commercial Break

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is now time for a word from our sponsor ~

[Big Voice Booms In Voiceover] Do you struggle each morning as to which vowel to place before the other? Are you embarrassed because your quotation marks always land in the improper spot?

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[voice over returns] Yes, ladies and gentlemen! $19.95 plus shipping and handling! . . .

[commercial scratches to a halt . . .A wild-eyed ChoiceCentral author looms ahead in the screen]

$19.95 . . .AND an EMAIL from your MOTHER!!

Well, ok. Not YOUR mother . . .MY mother. aka The Grammar Guru!

Yes . . .my delightful, unassuming, gentile, gracious mother felt it was best for the blogosphere at large that I correct a few *ahem* mistakes.

Well, ok.

One.

One mistake.

Change T H I E R to T H E I R.

Seems I have a little habit of mispelling that word.

Then there is my GilGuy - He felt compelled to inform me a few days ago that my punctuation when working with quotes was incorrect.

I DEMAND A RE-READ! WHERE IS MY ENGLISH TEACHER, Luella Sedivy?

Humph! There is only one answer to all of this! It's time for a little PUNCT-uation! PUN-PUN-PUN-PUNCT-uation!




Ah. *sigh.*

There. I feel much better now.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog-cast.

*No Mother's were harmed during this blogosphereic rant.

Love you, Mom! :)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw that too, but since I'm not one for casting the first stone and all...

;)

Anonymous said...

You're killing us, dear! Will you please finish the story already!? At the rate you're going, Keller is going to be a teenager before we know how everything turned out! ;P

Oh Joy! said...

*sigh*

Who asked for commercials? I don't pay attention to those things... Writing is an expression of one's thoughts... so who cares if they can't spell their or thier - she probably shouldn't be homeschooling her kids... they'll be messed up for life... ;)

Keller is CUTE!!! I can't believe how he looks just like Gil! Wow. Does he have the same Gil mannerisms?

Anonymous said...

Would this be a bad time to tell you to remove the apostrophe from "mother's" at the end?

*ducks and runs*

Hey, you look beautiful today! :D

Unknown said...

BWAHAAAHAAA! T, Ang . . .I'm humbled that you'd even notice.

[said Angi innocently, making mental note to install spell check, grammar check, and use them regularly!]

LOLOLOL

Anonymous said...

It's an unfortunate OCD/perfection issue I have with myself :D

It could be worse. You COULD have to live with me!

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